Ian Cade

United Kingdom \ Member since December 2005

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I discovered the World Heritage list whilst studying in the Czech city of Olomouc in 2003, and since then I have spent a fair bit of my time visiting the sites and boring people with information about them. World Heritage Sites provide a great way to hunt out the best bits of countries and can give you a look at some great parts of a destination that you would otherwise not see. A few of my favourite sites have been the ones that I have made a special effort to get to see because of their place on the list; Sceilg Mhichíl, Guanajuato and Preah Vihear

I mostly take short trips around Europe, making the most of budget airlines special offers, seeing some of the continent's great cities, visiting friends and dragging them to some pretty obscure places.
I try to travel outside Europe at least once a year and hope to tick off a few of the places on my wish list when money, politics and time enable this.

It's not about the shark!:
Whilst the World Heritage Sites themselves are the focus of my travels, they are more a means to an end, the real joy of travelling comes from interacting with people, waiting for trains at hitherto unknown corners of the world then eating and drinking the tasty (and not so tasty) delights on offer.

My most impressive site: Angkor

My proposal for a new site: Major Buildings of the Chicago School of Architecture

Check out my website: https://letterboxd.com/meltwaterfalls/

Recent Visits
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    Feb. 23, 2025
    Cilento and Vallo di Diano, Naples, Pompei, Royal Palace at Caserta
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    Sept. 13, 2024
    Eisinga Planetarium
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    July 29, 2024
    Beijing Central Axis, Via Appia
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About Ian Cade

Member since
December 2005
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United Kingdom
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#132
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Reviews by Ian Cade

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Syracuse by Ian Cade

Syracuse (Inscribed)

Syracuse

The ancient port city of Siracusa was the main target for our all too brief excursion to South Eastern Sicily, and it was well worth the effort to get there. …

Val di Noto by Ian Cade

Val di Noto (Inscribed)

Val di Noto

I spent a morning in the town of Noto, and enjoyed strolling along Corso Vittorio Emanuele, sitting in café’s and taking in the great façade’s. There was still a lot …

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen by Ian Cade

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen (Inscribed)

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen

I really enjoyed my visit to Bremen, it turned out to be a very charming city, with much to warrant a visit.

The World heritage site itself I am still …

Sydney Opera House by Ian Cade

Sydney Opera House (Inscribed)

Sydney Opera House

I was very happy to see the Opera House added to the World Heritage list, it is an exceptional and highly identifiable building with an outstanding setting, in a great …

Saltaire by Ian Cade

Saltaire (Inscribed)

Saltaire

I must admit that sometimes I have to really motivate myself to visit the Industrial sites on the list, after a few dull visits I wasn’t imagining this one to …

Thingvellir by Ian Cade

Thingvellir (Inscribed)

Thingvellir

This was a really interesting and rewarding place to visit and as Paul Tanner states is an essential part of any trip to Iceland. We visited on a beautiful late …

Medina of Essaouira by Ian Cade

Medina of Essaouira (Inscribed)

Medina of Essaouira

I had heard lots of great stories about Essaouira, so thought it would be worth the trip down from Marrakesh, and as it turned out it was well worth the …

Luther Memorials by Ian Cade

Luther Memorials (Inscribed)

Luther Memorials

We visited Lutherstadt Wittenberg for a particularly cold November afternoon. The town itself was quite pretty but not at its best on an icy autumn day, I would guess it …

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz by Ian Cade

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörl… (Inscribed)

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

We only had a brief visit to the Georgium park in Dessau, which is just across the road from the Bauhaus Mastershouses. We had a brief walk through the park …

Bauhaus Sites by Ian Cade

Bauhaus Sites (Inscribed)

Bauhaus Sites

If your idea of a good World Heritage site is a historic city centre, then this is perhaps not the best place to visit as arriving from the train station …

Drottningholm by Ian Cade

Drottningholm (Inscribed)

Drottningholm

As already stated the Palace closes down for a few weeks in mid December – January so I didn’t actually get to visit the inside of the Palace. I must …

Skogskyrkogarden by Ian Cade

Skogskyrkogarden (Inscribed)

Skogskyrkogarden

This probably isn’t top of most people’s lists of Stockholm’s ‘must sees’, even down to the name which I thought I had managed to get my tongue around until the …

Westminster by Ian Cade

Westminster (Inscribed)

Westminster

This was London’s first World Heritage site and in my mind its finest, it really should not be be missed.

The original proposal was for just the Palace of Westminster …

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) by Ian Cade

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) (Inscribed)

Museumsinsel (Museum Island)

This group of museums at the end of an Island in the Spree are one of the premier attractions of Berlin. The reason for its inclusion on the list is …

Potsdam by Ian Cade

Potsdam (Inscribed)

Potsdam

I visited the Sansouci Park on a morning trip from Berlin, unfortunately the Sansouci Palace itself was closed, (the curse of Monday closures hit for the first and definitely not …

Maritime Greenwich by Ian Cade

Maritime Greenwich (Inscribed)

Maritime Greenwich

This is the third of London’s four UNESCO site’s to be added to the WHC list, and it is one of my favourite parts of the city. The Town of …

Tower of London by Ian Cade

Tower of London (Inscribed)

Tower of London

The tower is one of the best-preserved medieval palaces/ fortifications in the world, and it is made even more incredible as it is in the centre of one of Europe’s …

Canterbury by Ian Cade

Canterbury (Inscribed)

Canterbury

The Cathedral is exceptional and is the pinnacle of the Church of England. The complex itself is huge and I easily spent a full afternoon walking around it. The Cathedral …

Schönbrunn by Ian Cade

Schönbrunn (Inscribed)

Schönbrunn

A dwindling budget and long summer queues meant I didn't get to go inside, which I was a little disappointed by at the time. However the outside was impressive anyway, …

Brú na Bóinne by Ian Cade

Brú na Bóinne (Inscribed)

Brú na Bóinne

This was my second Neolithic site in a week and it had Stonehenge to match up to, and I can safely say that it did! I am not really a …

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